Fri, Oct 18, 2013 -- 10:00 AM

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems

An installation of Carrie Mae Weems' "Slow Fade to Black" at the Jack Shainman gallery in New York, N.Y.

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An installation of Carrie Mae Weems' "Slow Fade to Black" at the Jack Shainman gallery in New York, N.Y.

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems is often described as an artist
who grapples with issues like racism, gender and class. But she
says she thinks of her work as being about love and "the breadth
of the humanity of African-Americans who are usually
stereotyped and narrowly defined and often viewed as a social
problem." Weems joins us to talk about the first major
retrospective of her work, which just opened at the Cantor Arts Center, and the MacArthur genius grant she received last month.

Host: Dave Iverson

Guests:

Carrie Mae Weems, photographer and artist

Elizabeth Mitchell, curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University